I held my paw out in front of me, staring at the UI.
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Class: Beast
False Master: Rias Gremory
False Name: Fou
True Name: ????
Strength: D+
Endurance: C
Agility: A
Mana: B
Luck: E
NP: EX
Class Skills:
Authority of the Beast: E-
Independent Manifestation: A
Nega-????: ?
Personal Skills:
Magecraft: C+
Magical Energy Reactor: EX
Noble Phantasm: ?
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Current Arsenal:
Unnamed Azoth Sword (Nasuverse)
Ray of Grace (Sword Art Online)
Black Key (Nasuverse) [NEW!]
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My eyes roamed up and down the translucent page, going over each and everything I currently know about my vessel. Groaning, I look away, standing up as the cross walk turns green and navigate my way through the gaggle of legs and feat.
Today was... Slightly more productive then the last week combined, what with me having actually acquired a new weapon and feeding that itch to... Copy something. Have I tried to feed that need by having Kiba make blades? Yes, and while I keep the design for... Maybe a day or two, it never stays inside my Arsenal-
"Late, late, late, late-" I duck my head, just barely missing a swinging brief case and scoffing as the man walks into a sign while being so inattentive of his surroundings. 'Idgit.' I make a point of slapping my tail in his face right before I turn to take the next cross walk over to the school.
At the very least, school shouldn't have gotten out yet, so I can just avoid meeting the Breast Dragon and head back to watch more knock off Drag- "Afternoon little guy!" In the blink of an eye, hands wrap around my rib cage and man handle me to stare eye to eye with the current bane of my existence. "How's your day been?"
Ladies and gentlemen, the Breast Dragon Emperor, Issei Hyoudou. "My day's been just great! You see it all started this morning when-" Acting like a true lazy cat I just... Stopped holding self and melted like any good feline does to get stuck inside a vase. "And then Matsuda-"
I let his words wash over me as he dragged me away from the school, why was he dragging me away and being so chatty with me? Probably the consequences of my own actions, but at this point, I think he's just lonely for some company that isn't his perverted friends.
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"Fufu~ It seems he's enjoying himself today." Akeno comments as Rias sits on the ledge of the ORC's window, watching Fou get swept away with mirth in her eyes. "Indeed, Issei seems to be losing more and more of that depressive aura by the day..."
She trails off, lifting her cup to take a sip of her tea. "Not to mention that Fou's getting some socialization." Akeno in turn steps up, watching the brown haired boy take the white haired familiar away. "I suppose this is the consequences of his actions."
Rias's cup clinks against the saucer, the wind blows past as she watches them leave. "Now, President, I believe it's time for your training." Rias flinches, cup shaking as she slowly turns to her most trusted friend and comrade. "N-Now Akeno, surely we can skip today's-"
Lightning sparked through the air, dancing around the Priestess of Thunder. "Mou, Mou~ There's no backing out now." Akeno laughed.
Rias composes her self quickly, sighing, she stands up with dignity. "Very well," she places her cup and saucer down, turning to Akeno with a firm line made of her lips. "I have but one thing to say."
Akeno raises a brow, snapping her fingers and closing the window behind her. "And what would that be, Rias?" The red head takes a deep calming breath, raising in arm and a leg-
"N I G E R U N D A Y O ! S M O K E Y !" The red head sprints off, heading deeper into the ORC and leaving her faithful best friend stunned for a single moment.
Akeno chuckles, a dark glint in her eyes as her wings apear, floating in the air slightly. "Oh, President~" Her voice effortlessly carries down the halls, echoing and reaching the red-head, sending a fearful shiver down her spine.
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Issei heaved out a sight as he entered the park, having taken the time on his walk to this place in a contemplative silence. "So..." He starts as he turns around, adjusting his hold on his... Not his pet, for sure, but his newest friend and confidant.
"I'm doing a lot better now." He gently set White down on the warm stone lip of the fountain as he set down, moving his bag around to start searching through it as the rather intelligent animal lazily watched him. "I, took that note you brought me to heart."
He griped the handle of an object as he watched the lazily flickering ears and face of passive disinterest. "I've pulled back, uh, started spending time doing other things." He held out a hand, not even needing to grab the tail that came to rest in his palm. "Reading, biking, just going out and enjoying life." Issei smiled, brush moving through the silky soft fur that's become a familiar routine in the past couple of weeks.
"I've really come to learn that's there's more to life then just Oppai." He smiles, moving through the motions with the brush. "And I want to enjoy this feeling with my Harem!" White rolled his eyes, resting his head against the sun-warmed stone and closing them with a huff.
Issei stopped for a moment, taking the hair from the brush and placing it in a little baggy he brought to dispose later. "I'm out of that funk, and I'm feeling good, and I'm happy I actually gave it a try." Issei laughs, finishing up with brushing through White's fur like he does nearly everyday since he stopped gooning all the time. "Gooning, what a funny word."
Unkown to Issei, White's eyes shoot open as the unaware boy leans back with closed eyes to the sky. Slowly, he rises, stretching his body, magic spreading warmth through his body as his fur stand on edge.
"My, my." Issei freezes, a husky voice suddenly carrying over the air. "You've certainly made this easy on me, I do have to thank you for that." His head whips to the side, down the path just little ways away stood a woman. "Wha-" He barely has time to register anything as the lady's wings flare, black feathers slowly fall to the ground. "Y-yuma-chan? What are you doing-"
"Oh great." Issei's head whips to the side, another voice, more androgenous then feminine or masculine, "A Fallen Angel." Issei blinks, the words having come from the little white Creature that licked the back of it's paw.
The Lady whips her hand forward, light condensing around it into a spear. "Oh? And what are you? A Youkai?" White jumps down, slowly trailing in front of a sputtering Issei. "Nah, nothing like that. Just a guy who's got another job to do." White's eyes flicker to the side for mere moment as The Fallen readies her spear.
"Very well, I'll be gracious enough to give you one chance to leave before I skewer you." She sneers at white. "Hmmm." He tilts his head, ears flopping side to side as he seemingly considers her offer. "Nah."
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-[ Quest 4: The Story Begins. ]-
-[ Path 1: Let Raynare kill Issei and retrieve your master to revive him without outing yourself as a supernatural creature. ]-
-[ Path 2: Intervene in this Story Beat and change it, for better or worse. ]-
"Then I'll just eliminate you before I do the boy." I rolled my eyes as she smiled in what I can only imagine she thought was a sadistic way. "Sure, you can try." Rightfully she seemed pissed at my blatant dismissal of her ability to kill me and Issei- Fuck, I'm gonna have to take him to Rias after this.
Her wings flare, she rears back her spear as if to throw it. "Insolent beast!" One of my... Inherited skills is Reinforcement, allowing me to do as the name says. "What!?" Rubble exploded from where I was just standing, the light spear tearing up the concrete.
"You're quite arrogant-" Magic flooded my muscles, the ground cracked beneath my feet as I launched forward. "-for a two winged Fallen." My tail lashed out, magic reproducing the Black Key and launching it at her calf. "Agh!" She stumbles forward, a thin line of blood trailing down her leg as she whirls around and tries to stab me with another spear.
The ground exploded from the force of me jumping away and her spear slamming into it with a burst of energy. "Note to self, work on my accuracy when throwing things with my tail." My eyes roamed up and down her form, ready to jump away with another reinforcement.
Hair covered her eyes as she created another spear in her other hand. "You little..." The thing about Raynare, is that she's the first antagonist and a bottom of the rung two winged fallen angel.
"Me? Why whatever could you have against Beast? Surely you, a prodigious Fallen Angel, is not having trouble keeping up with my sudden bursts of speed." Another note to self, Reinforcement can hurt if don't do it right, as I can to attest to with the throbbing in my foot.
"I'm going to make a scarf out of your hide." She launched forward, spear aiming for me. "OVEREDGE!" My tail wrapped around the handle of Ray of Grace, the blade undergoing the effects of Alteration and Reinforcement together.
The blade clashed against the spear, relines cracking all over it- "AGH!" The improperly altered and reinforced blade exploded, adding to the force that sent me sliding across the ground. "Guess I put a little metal in your eyes." I could feel the sharp metal poking into my skin, my own self Reinforcement stopping them from going deeper and drawing more blood. "FUCK FUCK FUCK!" She stumbled back, barely keeping her hands away from pierced eyes.
I watched, letting her stumble around blind for a moment as I gathered the magical energy into my legs- "Bind!" I soared through the air, Black Key stabbing into her shadow as I past her.
I hummed, watching her barely be restrained by the key. "Okay then, another!" I blasted past her, adding another key, then another, and another, so on and so forth until she completely stopped moving, spears held defensively as she visibly struggles against the Shadowbinding effect.
"Not to self, remember that higher Mystery infused objects and beings beats lesser infused Mysteries, thus requiring stacking effects." Her jaw barely moved, most likely to ask me what I meant. "Doesn't matter now."
I swiped my tail through the air, summoning another Azoth blade, the red blade that I'd used to clean up only two bodies so far was stubbed into her from behind, fire erupting.
I pumped more magical energy into it, feeling my tolerance for the heat I generate approaching the self imposed limit I had upon myself. "Haaah." I jump back, flipping over the Key's in the ground and watching as she's slowly burned to ash.
"Damn, that smarts." I start to move back towards the Fountain, the sound of the cold flowing water calling to me like a siren.
Only to be interrupted by Issei, Harem King Boob Man himself, having a slight mental breakdown as he watches the ashes for a person that just tried to murder me get swept away with the wind. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!?" I released my hold on the magic keeping the keys.
"Water first, talking later."